Broom holder



Sept. 23, 1924.

E. L. FENSTERMAKER BROOM HOLDER Filed March 1, 1923 3,1 U c Emanuel L [naigrmalren' Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES EMANUEL L. FENSTERMAKER, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

BROOM HOLDER.

Application filed March 1, 1923. Serial No. 622,178.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL L. FEN- s'rnnMAKnR, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of L an caster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for holding brooms when not in use and it is an object of the same to provide a device of this character which shall be simple and unusually! efficient for its purpose.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a perspective of my device in use,

Figure 2 is a face view of the same, and

Figure 3 a modified form.

In the drawings reference character 10 indicates the body of my device which consists of a sheet metal plate cut or punched out substantially in the shape of a diamond with a diamond-shaped central opening. At its upper end is a slightly rounded exten sion provided with an opening at 11 to receive a screw-eye 12 or a hook or the like by means of which the device is attached to any convenient surface at a proper height from the floor. The plate being swung away from the wall at its lower end a broom 13 may be inserted through the central opening and when the parts are lowered the four Walls of the central opening will bind on the broom and hold it strongly against movement and at the same time permit of ready removal by raising the broom and then raising the plate and holding it while the broom is removed. The edges of the plate about the central opening may be left somewhat sharp to facilitate engagement with the handle of the broom, if necessary and so insure holding of the same. Ordinarily, however, there will be no such edges as would mar the surface of the broom handle. The four opposed gripping edges provide a very! strong and secure holding means, this being partly due to the fact that all four sides of the handle are strongly engaged and partly also to the fact that any downward pull on the broom handle tends to move the inner and outer sides of the same toward the reduced end portions -14: and 15 of the diamond-shaped opening thereby increasing the clamping action.

In Figure 3 I have shown a modified form-of the invention in which a holder 10 is supended on a hook or projection or screweye 16 extending from a support 17 fastened to the wall by nails 18 here shown as driven into joints of a brick wall. The support is made from the blank punched out of the diamond-shaped opening at 15, this blank being provided with nail-holes and a hole for the hook 16. When put up as in Figure 3 this provides a very strong and secure device, especially desirable where the holder must be attached to a brick wall. ferred a hook or the like may be permanently secured to part 17 in any convenient manner.

It will be understood that the use of this holder is not limited to broom handles, it being also adapted to engage the handles of mops, dusters and other similar articles which are to be suspended at a distance from the floor.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A broom holder comprising a screweye, and a one-piece flat member suspended therefrom said member having a diamondshaped central opening with its shorter axis extending horizontally! across the member, substantially as set forth.

2. A broom holder comprising a support, and a one-piece plate suspended therefrom having a central opening bounded by straight edges arranged in pairs the edges of each pair adapted to engage the broom handle at opposite sides, substantially as set forth.

3. A broom holder comprising a support, and a one-piece diamond-shaped plate carried thereby said plate having a diamond shaped central opening and the common major axis of the plate and of the opening normally extending in a vertical direction, substantially as set forth.

t. A broom-holder comprising a flat onepiece diamond-shaped supporting member with its major axis in a horizontal plane, and a flat holding member suspended therefrom at one end the latter member having a diamond-shaped opening formed by punching out the first named member therefrom, substantially as set forth.

If pre- P In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Lancaster, Pennsylval0 111a, th1s 226th day of February, A. D teen hundred and ninetwenty three. EMANUEL L. FENSTERMAKER. Witnesses MERLE R. BURKI-IART, EMMA D. RUST. 

